The country's 2-million-plus home care workers have been waiting a whole year now for President Obama to make good on his promise to grant them…
Posts published by “Dick Meister”
Election's over, the good guy won, so what now for working people? Labor's wish list for our re-elected president and the new Congress is long,…
OK, it's time to celebrate Labor Day, time to celebrate the labor movement that won a wide range of benefits for working people. That includes,…
The coming of the Internet has had a profound impact on media coverage of working people and their unions. No, the mainstream media have not…
Baseball season again. Time to re-enter the temples of baseball. Temples? Yes, temples. To most people, baseball is merely a game. But to some others,…
I hope we can all pause and reflect on the extraordinary life of a true American hero on Saturday (March 31). It's Cesar Chavez Day,…
The Occupy Wall Street Movement and the other anti-capitalist forces of today could find no greater inspiration than the Industrial Workers of the World –…
I spotted a forgotten hero at the memorial service for the nationally prominent San Francisco labor leader Walter Johnson recently, a true but largely unacknowledged…
Unions? Organized labor? The AFL-CIO? Those words were nowhere to be heard in President Obama's State of the Union address, despite labor's vital role in…